In order to index Web images, the whole associated texts are partitioned into a sequence of text blocks, then the local relevance of a term to the corresponding image is calculated...
In this paper, we study different strategies to stabilize and accelerate the column generation method, when it is applied specifically to the variable sized bin-packing problem,...
Matting refers to the problem of accurate foreground estimation in images and video. It is one of the key techniques in many image editing and film production applications, thus ...
In this paper, an object-based video retrieval methodology for search in large, heterogeneous video collections is presented. The proposed approach employs a real-time, compressed-...
Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G...
composed of various graphs linked together by relations of abstraction/refinement. The new structure is useful for representing information that can be described at t levels of abs...